I have a rails4 application that is deployed to production on an apache/phusion passenger stack.
There is an edit action for a nested resource in this application that is returning a 404. The route works just fine in development, even on my local system in production mode. I'm at my wits end to troubleshoot this, any input would be most appreciated! Thanks!
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I'm new in rails app development I am little bit confusing about rails deployment.
I following this guide below and done at all.
That mean my rails app on production mode?
Need to change Puma RACK_ENV to 'production' in Profile before pushing to heroku?
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-rails4
I believe so. The entire tutorial is setting up your rails server to work in production mode. Using some inductive logic, it seems that the tutorial is assuming you're in production:
"Rails 4 no longer has a static index page in production. When you’re
using a new app, there will not be a root page in production, so we
need to create one. We will first create a controller called welcome
for our home page to live:"
Indicates to me that it's assuming your rails server will be running in production.
To make doubly sure, you can check the heroku logs and look for a line that says:
Rails [your version] application starting in production
I'm having a real tough time diagnosing a 500 error from my application running in production. I've had it working before, but after re-deploying via Capastrano I am unable to get it going.
Here are the facts:
The server is setup with nginx + passenger, and I'm using
PostgreSQL.
Static assets are working properly, as in I'm able to access them just fine in a browser.
I can access the rails console via RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails console and perform Active Record actions (like
retrieving data from the db).
Within console, I can run app.get("/"), which returns a 500 error as well (after first showing the query that was run to load
the model).
The production.log file is never written to. I've set permissions 777 on it just for the hell of it. I've also set the log level to
:debug with nothing to show for it.
The nginx log (which passenger also uses) shows no indication of errors, it just notifies about cache misses.
Because nothing of use is being logged, I have no idea what to do here. I've tried setting full permission on the entire app directory with no help. Restarted the server multiple times, nothing. The database is there and rails can clearly communicate with it. I'm not sure what I did to get it to run the first time around. I just don't know why rails isn't outputting anything to the log.
Okay, I figured this out. The app ran fine in development mode, so I knew something production-specific was screwing it up. I went into config/environments/production.rb and changes these settings:
# Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on
config.consider_all_requests_local = false # changed from true
config.action_controller.perform_caching = true # changed from false
And then after restarting passenger, rails showed me the error w/ stacktrace. Turns out I was forgetting to precompile the asset pipeline!
Things to check
1) Are you sure you are running in production environment?
Check to see if any entries are in the development.log file
2) Set up your app to email you when a 500 error occurs with a full stack trace. I use the Exception Notifier gem but there are plenty of other solutions for this.
3) When checking your app in the console are you sure you are starting the console in production mode? It is possible that the app is not starting up at all and you just forgot to set the production param thereby thinking that the app runs fine when it doesn't.
4) Are you getting an nginx 500 error or the Rails 500 error? If nginx then it is likely that your app is not starting at all and highly unlikely that you will get any rails error in your log file. The assets are static files and navigating to them proves nothing other than that they exist.
5) Are you sure you are checking the right folder on the server? Sounds really stupid but capistrano could be deploying the app to a folder that is different to the folder that nginx is looking for for your app so double check both the folder capistrano is deploying to and the folder that nginx is looking for are the same.
Just a suggestion, I would use puma rather than passenger. It's awesome with nginx.
My problem is passenger's log file (error.log) has nothing. Then it's a rotation log issue. Run
passenger-config reopen-logs
solved my problem. More.
Have you tried running in development mode to see if the error reports itself?
I wrote a demo HelloWorld Rails app and tested it with WEBrick (it doesn't even use a DB, it's just a controller which prints "hello world"). Then I tried to deploy it to a local Apache powered with Passenger. In fact this test is just to get Passenger working (it's my first deploy on Apache). Now I'm not even sure that Passenger works, but I don't get any error on the Apache side.
When I fire http://rails.test/ the browser shows the Rails 500 error page - so I assume that Passenger works. I want to investigate the logs, but it happens that production.log is empty! I don't think it's a permission problem, because if I delete the file, it is recreated when I reload the page. I tried to change the log level in conf/environments/production.rb, tried to manually write to log file with Rails console production and
Rails.logger.error('asdf')
it returns true but nothing gets written to production.log. The path (obtained per Rails.logger.inspect) is correct, and I remark that the file is recreated if I manually remove it. How can I know what's going on?
(I already checked the Apache logs, plus I set the highest debug level for Passenger but it seems a Rails problem, so is not logged by the server)
Assuming you're running Rails 3.2.1, this is a bug. It was patched in 3.2.2.
If you can't upgrade to 3.2.2 for any reason, this comment on GitHub has a workaround:
# config/initializers/patch_rails_production_logging.rb
Rails.logger.instance_variable_get(:#logger).instance_variable_get(:#log_dest).sync = true if Rails.logger
Setting this works on Rails 3.2.11:
Rails.logger = ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger.new(Rails.root.join("log","production.log"))
I want to design my 404 page in my Rails 3.0.7 app.
If I request a non existing page I get the development output
Routing Error
No route matches "/foo"
I tried the following answers in:
How to test 500.html in rails development env?
application_controller:
def local_request?
false
end
development.rb:
config.consider_all_requests_local = false
development.rb:
config.action_view.debug_rjs = false
and I also started my app with:
RAILS_ENV=production rails s
RAILS_ENV=production passenger start
None of it worked.I love how rails makes complicated tasks very simple. But it's really frustrating how really simple things turn out tu be overwhelmingly difficult, impossible to debug and you end up hacking on remote servers to work around it..
Has anyone had this problem before?
If your error pages are static you can simply go to http://localhost:3000/404.html, http://localhost:3000/500.html, etc.
Best idea I've come up with so far is to run the server in production mode locally.
rails s -e production
cheers.
I'm having a strange problem: I'm running my server in production mode, everything is fine, but I keep getting error messages like they appear in development mode. So for example instead of a 404 page, I'm getting "No route matches "/foo" with {:method=>:get}". Also "exception notifier" stopped sending exceptions.
I put <%= "Environment: #{RAILS_ENV}" %> into a view, to double-check I am definitly in production mode, which is true. Never had this before.
I'm on rails 2.3.8 on a shared server, running passenger.
Thanks for any help,
Ron
Sounds a lot like this one:
http://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=109
The general recommendation is to remove the config.ru from the root of your app. It seems to confuse Passenger quite a bit.
upgrading your Phusion Passenger seems to be the solution.